Similes And Change In Dragon Rider By Cornelia Funke

The symbolisms greatly have an impact on the suspense in each story. Gilman uses wallpaper to symbolize some sort of text she must interpret and believes it affects her in some way directly. “There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows about but

That’s when Danzi and Ping flew away. Ping finds out that Master Lan blames the deaths of the 11 dragons on her and says she’s an evil sorceress. This then leads to the next lot of critical events with Diao the dragon hunter and many other people who want the dragon and his stone. Finally, the resolution decides to show up. They reach the Ocean and Danzi says he’s going to travel alone with Hua to the river of renewal. Ping is stuck with the new baby dragon which just hatched from the dragon stone. The climax in this story would have to be when they reach the Ocean and Danzi says he’s taking Hua but not Ping over to the river of renewal. The main character is Ping. The character is realistic. Ping sounds exactly like a normal slave until they start talking about her being a Dragon Keeper and looking after the dragons. The way she changes during the novel is extraordinary. At first, she is a shy girl, who knows practically nothing and doesn’t believe in herself

By using imagery throughout the book, the reader gets a better idea of what life was like through Jeanette's eyes.

In “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, the author uses simple, but powerful similes as a gateway to the reader understanding the setting of the story. “The Pedestrian” is the tale of a lone wandering man walking down the street at twilight. The man is then accused of being a criminal and taken back to his home, also known as “The Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies.” The similes used in the story help readers fully understand and see the setting of “The Pedestrian”.

Another big literary device used by Shirley Jackson in her short stories is imagery. One piece of evidence revealing that she uses imagery is in “The Lottery” when she states, “The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green”(Jackson 1). This imagery gives the reader a descriptive image of how beautiful the day was and makes them feel like they are in the scene. In “The Possibility of Evil” Shirley Jackson opens a similar way by claiming, “The sun was shining, the air was

Without imagery in “The Most Dangerous Game,” the setting wouldn’t be nearly as powerful. The imagery allows readers to better understand how difficult it is for Rainsford to navigate the terrain. At the beginning of the story, the narrator uses imagery to describe the island: “dense jungle came down to the very edge of the cliffs. What perils that tangle of trees and underbrush might hold for him did not concern Rainsford just Then” (Connell). The imagery is very effective in this scene because the narrator uses words such as “dense” and “tangle,” which clearly illustrate how hard it is to navigate the terrain. The imagery also allows readers to picture General Zaroff’s mansion. The narrator describes what Rainsford sees when he comes across the mansion: “but as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building--a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows” (Connell). By using words such as “lofty” and “enormous,” readers are better able to picture what the mansion looks like. Therefore, imagery is one of the reasons why “The Most Dangerous Game” is a successful short story because it enables readers to picture the setting, which is very important to the plot.

Although there are many different literary techniques used in these two pieces imagery is an element that is depicted in the both of them. Imagery is a literary technique that appeals to the senses of its readers. It gives the reader a visual of what the writer is feeling about what he or she is writing. In the poem, “What it’s Like to Be a Black Girl”, by Smith, (1991), imagery is used to display the writers feelings of being black and not necessary proud of being black, “it’s dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and suffering their burn in silence”. The writer could be using the word blue as a way to depict the wanting to have beautiful blue eyes like many White women as opposed to the dark brown or black eyes that she probably possessed. Imagery is also seen in the way how the writer explains her encounter with the opposite sex. “It’s finally having a man reach out for you then caving in around his fingers”. It is having a man finally paying attention to you but not knowing that he only wants to control your body.

As well as lighting, sound was used very effectively to stage the story. For example “echoes” were created in the alleyways, to make us think that Eddie’s house was a long way away. These echoes were also used to symbolise Eddie’s loneliness. This could show that there is emptiness in Eddie’s heart that can only be filled by a close friend or a brother. There was a bold use of sound especially in scary, dramatic or important scenes. This added to the drama of the overall performance, it made the audience feel a variety of emotions. In the scene when Mrs. Lyons tries to murder Mrs. Johnston, the sound affects really emphasised how Mrs. Lyons was feeling and her sheer madness. The use of surround sound made me feel like I was in the scene and it made the whole performance much more realistic.

The first way the author uses symbolism to show the overall theme is with color. Numerous times in the novel Janie is wearing a

The author uses imagery to interest the reader in her story that may seem mundane without the imagery. An example of this happening is when Jeannette is going to her new school in Welch it was her first day and the teacher picks on her because she did not have to give the school her records to her not having them as that is happening a tall girl stabs her out of nowhere“I felt something sharp and painful between my shoulder blades and turned around. The tall black girl with the almond eyes was sitting at the desk behind me.

Throughout the passage, Katherine Anne Porter creates a story using figurative language, imagery, and dialogue to develop some of the characters emotions that are portrayed. All of these emotions the characters are feeling helps the reader understand more of the story and can aid in the knowledge of what is taking place.

In “blue + yellow” imagery is also used to describe how Clair is acting in the scene where she is looking at the picture being painted by George. Clair believes the picture is of her, and the author uses very descriptive language to give the reader an image in their head about what Clair sees, for example “She looks at her own hand, turns it in the light, and bends her fingers into the same position”(Chris Killen P105). The author just like in “the story of an hour” is using imagery to make it clear how Clair is reacting to what she is experiencing with her loved one just as Mrs. Mallard was. These two stories are similar in the way the authors use imagery to express one of the characters love for their significant other in the story.

Imagery is widely used in O'Connor's story, which makes the characters and surroundings seem lifelike. In the depiction of the grandmother the reader can visual see the woman sitting in the car waiting on the others to arrive. "Her collar and cuffs were white organdy trimmed with lace and at her neckline she had penned a purple spray of violets containing a sachet." These are a few phrases of description that O'Conner used to describe the old

Another aspect of sound in this film was how it affected the story. By using sound dramatically in certain parts and not using it at all in other parts, sound gave this story an entity of its own. For example, during long stretches of film with mostly dialogue, there was no music played in the background, only a phone ringing in the distance, or the men's voices during their deliberation. These long silences also took place during editing shots of the town and images that surrounded this German city. This dramatic difference in sound was a revelation of how mood can be made by images and sound put together to make an incredible component.

I do find it a bit weird how she was so skeptical of Kol and helping him break the link Davina had with Inadu at age seven, but at age fifteen she has none of this skepticism towards Roman? Personally, I didn't expect her to be like Klaus, Elijah, Freya, Rebekah, or Kol. She wasn't raised or influenced heavily by them, but by Hayley. Yeah, Freya was there, but as you stated, she was protected. They - Hayley and Freya - didn't warn her when it came to strangers or people she didn't know on a personal level. Although, Hayley did tell Hope to not tell anyone she was a Mikaelson and she did it anyway. There are tons of intelligent 15-year-olds and she - so far - doesn't seem to be one of them.